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3 Sharp Divrei Torah on Parshas Mikeitz {From Sefer Pninei Kedem}

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Rabbi Daniel Glatstein

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Okay, here are a few very sharp detra on paras. First of all, says, "Oh, you have a younger brother. Well, uh, you better bring him. Uh, you're all going to be in jail unless you bring him." So, I have a question. Why in the world did they bring him? Why did they bring him? Why didn't they just get a binyamin lookalike? You know, Ysef doesn't know what the kid looks like. Yo should they should have just hired someone paid somebody off to to be a Binyamin lookalike. Why would they actually listen to Ysef? They see this guy cannot be satisfied. He always has new requests. Why would they actually bring Binyam down? Get an aer. Another question is what what was saying? He says you leave one of you guys here and and everyone else could go. Why did he need one of them to stay? So, okay, you say obviously because uh if if if he let them all go, maybe they would never come back. Fine. But it almost sounds like in he says if you're true then one of you will stay behind and the rest of you go back and get okay. I could understand why he wants one of them to stay behind. But why does one of them staying behind? What does that have to do with them getting beyammen? So the hafla says very simple. One question answers the other. What's the likelihood they're actually

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  1. 0:00Okay, here are a few very sharp detra on paras. First of all, says, "Oh, you…
  2. 0:31lookalike. Why would they actually listen to Ysef? They see this guy cannot be satisfied. He…
  3. 1:03like in he says if you're true then one of you will stay behind and the…
  4. 1:33going to be bring down and not get some kind of impostor? So now what happens…
  5. 2:04by the reaction on Shimon's face, I'll be able to determine whether this is in fact…
  6. 2:34he didn't protest the brothers kept on saying your servant our father your servant our father…
  7. 3:05before the brothers. The only thing is if you count up how many times the brother…
  8. 3:37died 10 years before the brothers. Then the Pik says why did Yo emphasize okay when…
  9. 4:09see the is that you only say after you travel a para not before that knew…
  10. 4:39emphasis on. Okay, Rabbi, I wish everyone a good chabases and a >> recording stopped.…

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